In the book, 40 experts speak, who explain in clear language what AI is, and what questions, challenges and opportunities the technology brings.
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Op donderdag 15 oktober 2009 zijn bij Saxion in Enschede de lectoren Henk van Leeuwen, Piet Griffioen en Wouter Teeuw officieel geïnstalleerd. Met zijn drieën vormen zij het lectoraat ‘ambient intelligence’ van het Saxion Kenniscentrum Design en Technologie. In hun lectorale rede ter ere van deze installatie gaan zij in op ontwikkelingen en toepassingen van ambient intelligence. Met de term ambient intelligence wordt een toekomstvisie aangeduid. In deze visie zijn omgevingen zich bewust van de aanwezigheid van personen, hun gedrag of zelfs hun intenties. Slimme omgevingen kunnen daarop reageren. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan spiegels waarop tijdens het tanden poetsen de file informatie van die dag verschijnt. Of een tapijt dat beweging kan registreren, bijvoorbeeld om patiënten te monitoren in een verzorgingstehuis. In hun rede geeft het drietal lectoren antwoord op stellingen en vragen over de mogelijkheden van ambient intelligence. Kunnen we systemen bedenken die anticiperen op wat mensen willen en ons zo beter ondersteunen in onze activiteiten? Kan een omgeving slim worden en als het ware weten wat er speelt en daarop zo te reageren dat dit door ‘ons’ als gebruiker als natuurlijk wordt ervaren? De lectoren werken voor het lectoraat ambient intelligence binnen het Kenniscentrum Design en Technologie van Saxion. Het lectoraat richt zich op de werkomgeving met aandacht voor veilig, plezierig en gezond werken.
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PBL is the initiator of the Work Programme Monitoring and Management Circular Economy 2019-2023, a collaboration between CBS, CML, CPB, RIVM, TNO, UU. Holidays and mobility are part of the consumption domains that PBL researches, and this project aims to calculate the environmental gains per person per year of the various circular behavioural options for both holiday behaviour and daily mobility. For both behaviours, a range of typical (default) trips are defined and for each several circular option explored for CO2 emissions, Global warming potential and land use. The holiday part is supplied by the Centre for Sustainability, Tourism and Transport (CSTT) of the BUas Academy of Tourism (AfT). The mobility part is carried out by the Urban Intelligence professorship of the Academy for Built Environment and Logistics (ABEL).The research question is “what is the environmental impact of various circular (behavioural) options around 1) holidays and 2) passenger mobility?” The consumer perspective is demarcated as follows:For holidays, transportation and accommodation are included, but not food, attractions visited and holiday activitiesFor mobility, it concerns only the circular options of passenger transport and private means of transport (i.e. freight transport, business travel and commuting are excluded). Not only some typical trips will be evaluated, but also the possession of a car and its alternatives.For the calculations, we make use of public databases, our own models and the EAP (Environmental Analysis Program) model developed by the University of Groningen. BUAs projectmembers: Centre for Sustainability, Tourism and Transport (AT), Urban Intelligence (ABEL).
Over the last couple of years there is a growing interest in the role of the bicycle in Western urban transport systems as an alternative to car use. Cycling not only has positive environmental impacts, but also positive health effects through increased physical activity. From the observation of the Urban Intelligence team that cycling data and information was limited, we have started the development of cycleprint. Cycleprint stands for Cycle Policy Renewal and INnovation by means of tracking Technology with the objective to enable more customer friendly cycle policy.The initial objective of Cycleprint was to translate GPS data into policy relevant insights to enable customer friendly cycle policy. The online toolkit what Cycleprint has become, answers the questions about:-route choice-speeds-delays at intersections -intensities Because of the success of Cycleprint in the Netherlands the range of features is still under development. As a result of the development of Cycleprint the Dutch organized the fietstelweek. In addition to Cycleprint the Urban Intelligence team developed the cyclescan to explore the effects of cycle network enhancement. The project is developed in direct collaboration with the Provincie Noord-Brabant and Metropoolregio Eindhoven to fulfill the ambition to become cycling region of the Netherlands in 2020.
There is increasing interest for the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in the field of sustainable transportation and urban development. Even though much has been said about the opportunities of using VR technology to enhance design and involve stakeholders in the process, implementations of VR technology are still limited. To bridge this gap, the urban intelligence team of NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences developed CycleSPEX, a Virtual Reality (VR) simulator for cycling. CycleSpex enables researchers, planners and policy makers to shape a variety of scenarios around knowledge- and design questions and test their impact on users experiences and behaviour, in this case (potential) cyclists. The impact of infrastructure enhancements as well as changes in the surrounding built environment can be tested, analysed an evaluated. The main advantage for planners and policy makers is that the VR environment enables them to test scenarios ex-ante in a safe and controlled setting.“The key to a smart, healthy and safe urban environment lies in engaging mobility. Healthy cities are often characterized by high quality facilities for the active modes. But what contributes to a pleasant cycling experience? CycleSPEX helps us to understand the relations between cyclists on the move and (designed) urban environments”
